Pith Number

pith:RPTFRL7P

pith:2025:RPTFRL7P2ED2XZWICP6QAUBUXC

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A Causal Perspective on Measuring, Explaining and Mitigating Smells in LLM-Generated Code

Alejandro Velasco, Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas, David N. Palacio, Denys Poshyvanyk, Dipin Khati, Luftar Rahman Alif

arxiv:2511.15817 v6 · 2025-11-19 · cs.SE

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SmellBench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Architectural Code Smell Repair

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First computed	2026-08-04T02:09:10.178964Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8be658afefd107abe6c813fd005034b8b6520e777831ef4c3f424ed537a973f0

Aliases

arxiv: 2511.15817 · arxiv_version: 2511.15817v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.15817 · pith_short_12: RPTFRL7P2ED2 · pith_short_16: RPTFRL7P2ED2XZWI · pith_short_8: RPTFRL7P

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RPTFRL7P2ED2XZWICP6QAUBUXC \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8be658afefd107abe6c813fd005034b8b6520e777831ef4c3f424ed537a973f0

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d5bb7cd6f810e0427439c2176a938076d1ee91b09a547e142830948fd0c2d51",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-11-19T19:18:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48376ad0fce609448052c0c576c39fb8cdf20c3cb345f1e6ef2965e86adca763"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2511.15817",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}